Russian actress Lyudmila Gurchenko dies

Thesp was star of 'Carnival Night'

Lyudmila Gurchenko, a popular Russian movie actress since the mid-1950s, died in Moscow on Wednesday, March 30, of natural causes. She was 75.

She became a star at age 21 when she played the lead in the 1956 comedy “Carnival Night,” also the debut of noted helmer Eldar Ryazanov. He directed her a quarter-century later in another of her most praised performances, as the waitress in “Station for Two.”